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Saint Augustine's University

Raleigh, North Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1867

www.st-aug.edu · official site

Founding

Saint Augustine's University was chartered as a Normal School and Collegiate Institute on July 19, 1867, by the Reverend J. Brinton Smith of the Freedman's Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Bishop Thomas Atkinson of the Diocese of North Carolina. The school opened for instruction on January 13, 1868.

Source: History, Saint Augustine's University, read 2026-09-14.

Standing

The university states on its own accreditation page that its accreditor voted to remove its accreditation over financial conditions and that it has filed for Chapter 11 reorganisation and ended its litigation with the accreditor. It appears on the IPEDS 2024-25 HBCU list and not on the Department's FY 2026 Title III Part B list. Source, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1315 Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27610-2298
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
199582
OPE id
00296800
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Not on the list
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 1315 OAKWOOD AVE, RALEIGH, NC, 27610. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 199582. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, Saint Augustine's University. https://www.st-aug.edu/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. SACSCOC Updates, Saint Augustine's University. https://www.st-aug.edu/sacscoc-updates/. Read 2026-09-14.
  5. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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